Our friend Giuseppe De Palo reports that the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (“JURI”) will discuss mediation again at the February 26, 2015, ‘Civil Law & Justice Forum’ in Brussels, and the ADR Center has been asked to present a follow-up to its 2014 study, “Rebooting the Mediation Directive.”
The Center has prepared a...

The ABA Business Law Section is partnering with New York Law School to present a half-day CLE Symposium on "ADR and the Young Lawyer" on Friday morning, January 30.
The event, held from 9:00 to 1:45, features speakers from leading corporations, law firms and ADR...

A while ago I was engaged to assist two partners who had worked since their college years to build up a very successful business. Now, more than 25 years later, they could barely be in the same room with each other, and wanted help in finding a way out.
Just the...

Professor Stacie Strong of the University of Missouri has announced a student writing competition to prompt critical thinking on the dispute resolution ramifications of the events surrounding the killing in Ferguson, Missouri and elsewhere. The details of the competition are below. It will be interesting to see what examples of...